Finding mountpoints in windows

[Stephen Boulet]

I see that I can use os.chdir to get from, say, N: to C:. Is there a way
to list the mountpoints if I can't assume what they are beforehand?

Thanks.

-- Stephen

[Simon Brunning]

> From: Stephen Boulet [SMTP:stephen...@motorola.com]

> I see that I can use os.chdir to get from, say, N: to C:. Is there a way
> to list the mountpoints if I can't assume what they are beforehand?

You'll need win32all. Then you use:

import win32api, win32file

drives = [drive for drive in
win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings().split('\x00')[:-1] if
win32file.GetDriveType(drive) == win32file.DRIVE_FIXED]

Cheers,
Simon Brunning
TriSystems Ltd.
sbru...@trisystems.co.uk

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[Simon Brunning]

> From: Simon Brunning

> From: Stephen Boulet [SMTP:stephen...@motorola.com]
> I see that I can use os.chdir to get from, say, N: to C:. Is there a
> way
> to list the mountpoints if I can't assume what they are beforehand?
>
> You'll need win32all. Then you use:
>
> import win32api, win32file
>
> drives = [drive for drive in
> win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings().split('\x00')[:-1] if
> win32file.GetDriveType(drive) == win32file.DRIVE_FIXED]

Woops! This will only get you the local hard drives. You'll need to look at
the win32file.DRIVE_whatever values to see which ones you want:

* win32file.DRIVE_CDROM
* win32file.DRIVE_FIXED
* win32file.DRIVE_NO_ROOT_DIR
* win32file.DRIVE_RAMDISK
* win32file.DRIVE_REMOTE
* win32file.DRIVE_REMOVABLE
* win32file.DRIVE_UNKNOWN

So if you wanted to see *all* local drives, including CD-ROMs, floppies and
so on, for example, you'd use:

drives = [drive for drive in
win32api.GetLogicalDriveStrings().split('\x00')[:-1] if

win32file.GetDriveType(drive) in [win32file.DRIVE_FIXED,
win32file.DRIVE_CDROM, win32file.DRIVE_REMOVABLE]]

Enjoy.